Easiest way to move many events to a different external drive?

Folks -
I need to move 300 Events to a disk of another name. Is there a quick way to do this? I have only been able to do it one event at a time, using command-drag between volumes in iMovie '11. Many of them have Projects, which I would love to keep connected.

Hi
There are some very important things about this.
A. Do not move any folder named
• iMovie Events or iMovie Projects - on DeskTop/Finder - If so iMovie loses connection to them.
B. Moving can and should be done Within iMovia and resp. window Events and Projects
C. External/Second hard disk
• HAS TO BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchane will not work for VIDEO
• SHOULD be a FireWire (or internally e-Sata) one - as USB/USB2 performs badly especially when filling up and HD-video
Yours Bengt W

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